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Environmental activist climbs political ladder in Indonesia’s Aru Islands

...The roots of the wakat trees are a feeding ground for the crabs, fish and shrimp that the community rely on to meet their protein needs. When wakat trees begin to rot, the wood becomes infested with t...

26 Jun 2023

Environmental activist climbs political ladder in Indonesia’s Aru Islands

News / Cities

Heat and rain punish Karachi’s homeless

...the most senior executive post for the city and its surrounding areas between 2013-2015, told Dialogue Earth that there are no official provisions for the homeless. “At most, we would take them to the...

13 Aug 2024

Heat and rain punish Karachi’s homeless

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Heat on UAE to give COP28 ambitious edge we need

...their commitments on climate finance at previous COPs, exhorting them to scale up contributions from billions to the promised trillions. The first synthesis report of the technical dialogue on the Glo...

25 Oct 2023

Heat on UAE to give COP28 ambitious edge we need

News / Water

Infants at higher risk in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh

...the tip of the iceberg.” Using high-resolution maps of recent large floods, the researchers identified the flood-prone areas in the country. They analysed this information alongside health data collec...

3 Jan 2024

Infants at higher risk in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What Australia's new gas strategy gets wrong

...thereby leaving only 10 per cent for the domestic market. As the export market expands, the cost of gas for the domestic consumer on the east coast will correspondingly expand. There is no guarantee t...

28 May 2024

What Australia's new gas strategy gets wrong

News / Food & Agriculture

In Nepal, debate rages on crop-raiding monkeys

...the migrants moving overseas were men, and over 75 per cent were in the age group of 15-34 years. “The monkey-human conflict was there in the past too, but there was a human force to deter them or gua...

17 Jul 2024

In Nepal, debate rages on crop-raiding monkeys

A factory worker in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial capital.

News / Manufacturing

Extreme heat and flooding could cost Asian apparel manufacturing hubs US$65 billion in earnings: study

...the health and livelihoods of the people who make most of the world's clothing. Using the wet-bulb global temperature (WBGT) phenomenon – that is, a sliding scale of heat stress that determines when l...

13 Sep 2023

Extreme heat and flooding could cost Asian apparel manufacturing hubs US$65 billion in earnings: study

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News / Policy & Finance

Poor sustainability credentials are rarely seen as a barrier to investment for Asia funds: Study

...the sustainability practices of businesses with neutral or negative ESG credentials after including them in their portfolios. “When their due diligence process identifies these issues, they don’t put ...

9 Nov 2023

Poor sustainability credentials are rarely seen as a barrier to investment for Asia funds: Study

Opinion / Transport

Rising costs can encourage a better kind of tourism

...The silver lining of the cost-of-living crunch and airfare rise is that it presents a fantastic opportunity to open up the rest of the country, which is full of destinations many in Australia and the ...

30 Apr 2024

Rising costs can encourage a better kind of tourism

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Humanity’s big problem: Luxury carbon consumption, not population

...These arguments were still raging in the 1960s, when Paul and Anne Ehrlich added fuel to the fire with their bestseller, The Population Bomb. Their fears were reasonable, given the data. By 1975, the ...

28 Mar 2023

Humanity’s big problem: Luxury carbon consumption, not population

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

The chief sustainability officer: To hire or not to hire?

...the business. They would a be strategic thinker who understands the organisation at an operational level, and who can work with outside experts to ascertain the priorities and the scale of the change ...

15 Mar 2023

The chief sustainability officer: To hire or not to hire?

News / Carbon & Climate

Jakarta governor elections: Who will transform Indonesia's sinking metropolis?

...these challenges in their campaign platforms. Eco-Business has assessed the environmental pledges of the candidates in the running to be the next governors of Southeast Asia's largest city. Ridwan Ka...

22 Nov 2024

Jakarta governor elections: Who will transform Indonesia's sinking metropolis?

News / Energy

Singapore’s upcoming LNG terminal faces no significant stranding risk from renewables push: minister

...the post-pandemic economic bounceback and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine also caused financial losses in many gas-reliant Asian countries. “When we did the projections, [they showed that] with the incre...

2 Mar 2024

Singapore’s upcoming LNG terminal faces no significant stranding risk from renewables push: minister

A palm oil plantation next to tropical forests in Indonesia.

News / Food & Agriculture

Palm oil plantations absorb more carbon than tropical forests, claims Indonesian palm lobbyist

...the process. He said that the claim about the oxygen-releasing potential of oil palm plantations is a "red herring" and therefore misleading, since there is an abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere. ...

2 Aug 2023

Palm oil plantations absorb more carbon than tropical forests, claims Indonesian palm lobbyist

News / Policy & Finance

Can pre-disaster cash and aid help fix climate 'loss and damage'?

...the fund", and even the "name of the fund", according to a UN note. And cash from the planned fund may not start flowing to vulnerable nations for at least another year, said Ritu Bharadwaj, principal...

19 Oct 2023

Can pre-disaster cash and aid help fix climate 'loss and damage'?

News / Policy & Finance

Women's charities sound alarm as aid cuts hit equality spending

...their foreign aid budgets due to fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war. “ This is obviously at the bottom of people's lists. Because there's just so many other things worth spending ...

22 Aug 2023

Women's charities sound alarm as aid cuts hit equality spending

"No to coal in Asia": 350.org protesters in Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore's central bank proposes engagement, over divestment, for decarbonising finance firms

...the new guidelines are the latest in the wave of frameworks that have been put forth by global regulators and standard setting bodies over the past two years. “The guidelines move the frontier for tra...

30 Oct 2023

Singapore's central bank proposes engagement, over divestment, for decarbonising finance firms

News / Food & Agriculture

Maluku farmers struggle with El Niño-induced drought amid soaring rice prices in Indonesia

...The reservoir is empty because of the long dry season.” In a normal year, rice farmers begin planting the third and final rice crop of the year in October and November. But the emergence of the El Niñ...

30 Jan 2024

Maluku farmers struggle with El Niño-induced drought amid soaring rice prices in Indonesia

News / Energy

Is India’s east and northeast missing out on the renewables boom?

...the waiver of the Inter-State transmission system, charges for buying solar and wind power from other states do not cost extra. The nature of the local energy demand curve in the northeast is another...

29 Sep 2023

Is India’s east and northeast missing out on the renewables boom?

News / Policy & Finance

As India votes, young workers hope for jobs and better pay

...the ILO-IHD study said the improvement was "paradoxical". The March 2024 study said working conditions, wages and job security were getting worse. In the formal economy, the report showed there has ...

26 Apr 2024

As India votes, young workers hope for jobs and better pay

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